Migrants are still freely crossing from Guatemala into southern Mexico by paddling across a river - with NO SIGN of the 6,000 National Guard troops Obrador promised Trump he’d deploy
Mexico’s promised deployment of 6,000 National Guard troops to its southern border with Guatemala was supposed to stem the flow of migrants heading north through Central America.
Mexico's deal with U.S. President
Donald Trump was made under threat of American tariffs on Mexican goods - an agreement trumpeted as a great victory by the White House.
However, video footage captured this week suggests security on Mexico’s southern border remains lax, with migrants from Africa and elsewhere freely paddling across the Suchiate River that connects Tecun Uman in Guatemala to the Mexican city of Ciudad Hidalgo.
According to
The Epoch Times, 18 people, including six children, from Congo and Angola, sat atop planks of wood placed over two tube rafts navigated by a pair of smugglers on Thursday morning.
Two days earlier, footage from an AP photographer assigned to the Guatemalan side of the Suchiate River captured 10 people, including several minors, being loaded on to a similar float before departing for Mexico.
On June 18, close to 20 migrants from Cuba and El Salvador slipped across the Guatemalan border and into Mexico with no National Guard members or law enforcement officials present, according to Mexican outlet
El Universal.
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